Saw oncologist, said bye to son, big Master's Comp to do this sun-mon
Well, this has been "some" spring break. The beginning of it husband Fran left with son Daniel -- he has left the building, he has left home, for good it seems :(. I was trying not to feel down with this empty nest now, but it was no fun taking all these notes and trying to type up what I think will be parts of my English Master's Comprehensive. I am supposed to do 3 research papers in 48 hours and then email the results to my "head" committee professor. His only advice was to get my rest. But this weekend is daylight's savings time, so I lose an hour's sleep right off the bat! And here it is, the night before that night before the papers and it is close to midnight!
But it's not my fault. I had to drive 2 hours to see an oncologist -- cancer doctor. Why? Because my husband's insurance doesn't cover but a small portion of the state. That is a subsidiary or related health insurance we could use, but then I think "everything" would have something like a 60 percent deductible first. 60 percent! Insurance in this country is a real ripoff, if you ask me. An area columnist was pointing out how people who had to go to the emergency room (for animal bites and the like or allergic reactions) were charged thousands for very little service. Even if their insurance paid most of it, it was a ripoff because they received so little care for the money. Health costs in this country are a sham.
I was hoping that the doctor would say I could go "off" of the anti-estrogen drug Femara next year, but since I had had "6" lymph nodes with cancer he said that was a lot and I really needed to continue. I guess, then, I will continue to lose my hair, get leg cramps and have food allergies. I didn't have these problems before Femara. Oh, and of course, my bones are going to thin out and give me osteoporosis too. Nice. I guess I will one day be bald but alive. But what if I lost weight and didn't "have" much estrogen in my body, what about that? Or what if I had a "balance" of estrogen, instead of an imbalance, what about that? They can't answer that. The only answer I get is to take drugs. Couldn't there be a better way?
But it's not my fault. I had to drive 2 hours to see an oncologist -- cancer doctor. Why? Because my husband's insurance doesn't cover but a small portion of the state. That is a subsidiary or related health insurance we could use, but then I think "everything" would have something like a 60 percent deductible first. 60 percent! Insurance in this country is a real ripoff, if you ask me. An area columnist was pointing out how people who had to go to the emergency room (for animal bites and the like or allergic reactions) were charged thousands for very little service. Even if their insurance paid most of it, it was a ripoff because they received so little care for the money. Health costs in this country are a sham.
I was hoping that the doctor would say I could go "off" of the anti-estrogen drug Femara next year, but since I had had "6" lymph nodes with cancer he said that was a lot and I really needed to continue. I guess, then, I will continue to lose my hair, get leg cramps and have food allergies. I didn't have these problems before Femara. Oh, and of course, my bones are going to thin out and give me osteoporosis too. Nice. I guess I will one day be bald but alive. But what if I lost weight and didn't "have" much estrogen in my body, what about that? Or what if I had a "balance" of estrogen, instead of an imbalance, what about that? They can't answer that. The only answer I get is to take drugs. Couldn't there be a better way?